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Hair Color Removal

Posted by Kenny On August - 24 - 2009

Hair color removal becomes necessary if your home coloring experiment went horribly wrong, or if you’re simply not happy with the results, even though they don’t look terrible. Hair color removal can be challenging, whether you tackle it on your own or have a professional take care of it.

It is important to be aware of the effects of artificial and natural color that exists in your hair. Permanent hair color doesn’t lift out artificial color existing on the hair. Bleaching hair lightens artificial coloring (mostly with very dark colors) and it does this slower than natural pigments would through regrowth. If you used an inexpensive hair color from a supermarket or drug store, check to ensure that they do not contain any metallic salts or dye components. If these same products are processed with perm solutions, bleach or chemical straighteners, they can severely damage your hair. Darker colors tend to have more of these ingredients, which means that the more hair color you’ve used, the more metallic salts are deposited in the pores and follicles of your hair.




A simple way to remove hair coloring is to lift the pigment out with a shampoo cap, which is a less harsh form of bleaching your hair. mix peroxide, bleach and shampoo so as to make a smooth paste. Place some onto the ends of the hair that are holding the darkest color change, and slowly begin working it through your hair, but be careful to avoid the hair that has your natural color.

Although this process is less damaging than bleaching your hair, it still requires you to take some extra special care of your hair afterwards. Try a deep conditioning treatment to help your hair regain some of its health. Switch to a milder shampoo for a few weeks after the process, and avoid direct sunlight hitting your hair.

Hot water can sometimes fade chemical hair coloring away, if you try it within three days of the treatment. Volume gels and shampoos are usually made in such a way that they open up the hair cuticle. This being the case, they can speed up the removing of your hair color, but won’t completely remove it.

You can also try heating up some extra-virgin olive oil. Be careful while doing this because in order to strip your hair of the color the oil needs to be quite hot. It’s best to have someone else’s help while trying this method out.

Getting yourself a new hair cut can minimize the effects of your new hair color. If you go to a hair stylist they will probably know the best cut that can camouflage your hair color satisfactorily. If the hair color product you used was enhanced with chlorine, then using special chlorine removing shampoo can help to tone the color down.

One ‘n’ Only Colorfix is a product that is worthy of mention as it removes permanent hair coloring and can even remove it from specific areas. Similarly, Clairol products can remove semi permanent hair coloring in a few gentle, easy and quick steps.



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